Schedule
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
(Detailed schedule below)
Thursday, March 26
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 12:00-1:00 | Registration (Wake Downtown lobby) |
| 1:00-1:30 | Welcome and opening remarks (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |
| 1:30-2:00 | Coffee and pastries |
| 2:00-3:25 | Session 1 |
| 3:30-4:55 | Session 2 |
| 5:30-7:00 | Happy Hour (Wake Downtown lobby and atrium) |
Friday, March 27
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 7:30-8:00 | Coffee and breakfast (Wake Downtown lobby and atrium) |
| 8:00-9:25 | Session 3 |
| 9:30-10:55 | Session 4 |
| 11:00-12:25 | Session 5 |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch (Wake Downtown lobby and atrium) |
| 1:30-2:30 | KEYNOTE: Deborah Reisinger (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |
| 2:35-4:00 | Session 6 |
| 4:00-4:20 | Break |
| 4:25-5:50 | Session 7 |
| 6:00-7:30 | Reception (Wake Downtown lobby and atrium) |
Saturday, March 28
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 8:00-8:30 | Coffee and breakfast |
| 8:30-9:30 | KEYNOTE: Benjamin Rigney (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |
| 9:35-11:00 | Session 8 |
| 11:05-12:30 | Session 9 |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch & advocacy discussion (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |
| 1:30-2:55 | Session 10 |
| 3:00-3:30 | Closing remarks (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 26
| 12:00-1:00 | Registration |
| 1:00-1:30 | Welcome and opening remarks (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |
| 1:30-2:00 | Coffee and pastries |
| 2:00-3:25 | SESSION 1 Room 5206 (BGCME) “Integrating Science and Language: Design and Implementation of an ESAP/PBL Course for Rural Environmental Awareness” Presenter: María León “Multilingual Market Practices as a Foundation for Culturally Responsive LSP Pedagogy” Presenter: Kazeem Kehinde Sanuth “Comparing Dynamic and Static Assessment in Developing Pragmatic Competence for Business Chinese” Presenters: Peiyao Zhang, Yan Liu Room 5307 (BGCME) “A Model for LSP: Content-Based and Experiential Learning in Chinese Tea Culture” Presenter: Yi Zhou “Spanish for the Art Industry: Community-Based Learning and Nonprofit Management in a Spanish Classroom in New York City” Presenter: Guillermo Severiche “Building common ground: Designing evidence-based intercultural competency curriculum for SSP programs” Presenters: Shannon Zeller, Maura Velazquez Castillo, Nyssa Knarvik Room 4903 (WKDN) “Teaching Translation Technologies and Industry Economics: Empowering LSP Students for Leadership in a Data-Driven Marketplace” Presenter: Christopher D. Mellinger “Promoting Multilingualism Within and Beyond the World Language Classroom” Presenter: Mary Risner “Creating LSP Certificates for the Global Workplace: Diversifying Curricular Pathways in Language Education” Presenters: Qiaona Yu, Yasuko Takata Rallings |
| 3:30-4:55 | SESSION 2 Room 5206 (BGCME) PANEL “Adapt or Perish: How LSP revived the Spanish major at UNC-Chapel Hill” Presenters: Elizabeth Tolman, Hélène de Fays, Sharrah Lane, Giovani López López & Loida P. Slate Room 5207 (BGCME) “Spanish for Chiropractic: A Language Needs Analysis” Presenter: Jordan Troeger “Leading in Their Language: A Language Needs Analysis of Spanish for Supervisors in the Workplace” Presenter: Ana María Mendoza “English on the Field: A Needs-Based ESP Course Module for Bangladeshi International Cricketers” Presenter: Rukhsar Raiyan Modina Room 4903 (WKDN) PANEL “An Approach for Task-Based Materials and Assessment Design in Spanish for Veterinarians Coursework” Presenters: Shannon Zeller, Edward Sarasty, Paula Izquierdo García, Jhon Cortés Lugo |
| 5:30-7:00 | Happy hour |
Friday, March 27
| 7:30-8:00 | Coffee and breakfast |
| 8:00-9:25 | SESSION 3 Room 5203 (BGCME) “Recognizing the Needs of International Teaching Assistants: Targeting Intelligibility within Domain-Specific Language Analysis” Presenters: Luciana Marques, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker, Anthony Becker “Designing Communicative Online LSP Courses and an LSP Module of Choice” Presenter: Erika Stevens “Entrepreneurial Service-Learning: Expanding Access to Experiential LSP Pedagogy” Presenter: Grant Gearhart Room 5205 (BGCME) “Teaching Business Chinese in the AI Era: Using Chatbots for Interview Training” Presenter: Zhongqi Shi “Developing Task-Based AI Avatars to Enhance Medical Spanish Education” Presenters: Alyssia Miller-De Rutté, Giselle Alpizar-Calixto, Jordan Troeger “AI-Supported Experiential Learning in Spanish for Healthcare: Preparing Students for Community-Engaged Internships.” Presenter: Edurne Beltrán de Heredia Carmona Room 1615 (WKDN) “Language access in pre-trial criminal justice: A curriculum grounded in evidence” Presenters: Maura Velazquez Castillo, Nyssa Knarvik “Spanish for attorney-client meetings – US immigration cases” Presenter: Angel Rodríguez Lagos |
| 9:30-10:55 | SESSION 4 Room 5203 (BGCME) PANEL “Real-World Readiness Reimagined: Using Business Language Cases in Language and Culture Education” Presenters: Margaret Gonglewski, Sarah-Kay Hurst, Anna Helm Room 5205 (BGCME) “What Does “Effective Communication” Mean? Spanish-Speaking Voices in U.S. Healthcare” Presenters: Luz Ángela Redovian, Ana María Mendoza, Alyssia Miller de Rutté, Shannon Zeller, Maite Correa Room 1615 (WKDN) “Business Case Study: “Stack. Sip. Sell.” A German Drinking Tradition Comes to America” Presenter: Colin Benert “Developing Crisis Communication & Leadership Skills through a Business Language Case Study” Presenter: Sophie Landrieux Kartochian “Teaching International Market Entry in Advanced Spanish Business Courses Through Case-Based Learning: The Kodiak Cakes Colombia Expansion” Presenter: Timothy Ashe, Jr. |
| 11:00-12:25 | SESSION 5 Room 1616 (WKDN) “Addressing Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement in Spanish for the Professions Courses” Presenters: Vinodh Venkatesh, Mari Carmen Caña Jiménez “Communities in Crisis: Principles to Guide LSP Experiential Learning in Current Conditions” Presenter: Annie Abbott “An interdisciplinary community engagement project: Winning with positive impacts on everyone” Presenter: Verónica del Carmen Haun Room 1617 (WKDN) “Virtual Reality for Humanizing Medical Interpreting in the LSP Classroom: Immersive Empathy and Experiential Learning” Presenters: Alberto Moran Vallejo, Macarena Llamas Molina “Concordance Analysis of Modality and Passive Voice in Written Medical Case Reports: A Corpus-Based Approach” Presenter: Shema Akter “Humanistic approaches for Medical Chinese” Presenters: Meng Yeh, Liang Fu Room 4903 (WKDN) PANEL “Curricular Innovation and Program Growth Through Minors ‘for the Professions’ in French, German, and Spanish” Presenters: Rishani De Costa, Wendy Westphal, Carla Castaño, Julia Baumgardt, Jakob Turner |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30-2:30 | Keynote: Languages for Multiple Purposes: New Models for Content Acquisition Speaker: Debra Reisinger (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |
| 2:35-4:00 | SESSION 6 Room 1616 (WKDN) PANEL “LSP and the Literary/Cultural Studies PhD: Fostering Humanistic Scholarship about Professional Contexts” Presenters: Annie Abbott, Mary K. Long, Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert, Maida Watson Room 1617 (WKDN) “Why (not) learn languages? Student Perspectives on Language for Specific Purposes” Presenters: Luana Lamberti, Lindsay Preseau “Building Professional Pathways in French: Growing Learner Communities in a Times of Crisis” Presenter: Claire Tourmen “Teaching What Learners Need: Using Needs Analysis to Build Task-Based Business Spanish Courses” Presenters: Sergio Adrada Rafael, Gabriela DeRobles Room 4903 (WKDN) “Democratizing LSP Learning: The Pedagogical and Economic Impact of Open Educational Resources in Medical Spanish” Presenters: Diana Galarreta-Aima, Alicia Lopez-Operé, Paulina Carrión “Bridging Language and Care: An ESP Module for Spanish-Speaking Nursing Students” Presenter: Dennis Valladares “Practical Assessment Strategies for Vocabulary Learning in Languages for Specific Purposes Courses” Presenter: Maria Laura Mecias |
| 4:00-4:20 | Coffee Break |
| 4:25-5:50 | SESSION 7 Room 1616 (WKDN) PANEL “Innovative Curriculum Design Across Advanced Chinese for Specific Purposes: Bridging Language, Culture, and Professional Domains” Presenters: Tianshu He/Jin-wei Hung/Kun Shan Carolyn Lee Room 1617 (WKDN) “From Method Executor to Pedagogical Designer: Integrating Task-Based Case Teaching into a Legal English Module” Presenter: Hongling Zhu “A Genre-Based Study of Rhetorical Steps in Ghanaian Court Rulings for Legal English Teaching” Presenter: Christine Doe Room 4903 (WKDN) “Building a Medical Spanish Concentration to Sustain and Grow the Major” Presenter: Daniel Raso-Llarás “Communicative Needs: Utilizing TBLT to Promote Advocacy in a Community-based ESL Class” Presenters: Luz Ángela Redovian, Alauna Sutton “Supporting Community Engagement in Business Spanish through Human-Centered Design” Presenter: Lucia Sánchez-Gilbert |
| 6:00-7:30 | Reception |
Saturday, March 28
| 8:00-8:30 | Coffee and breakfast |
| 8:30-9:30 | Keynote: Leadership and Justice: Leveraging Influence for a More Equitable Future Speaker: Benjamin Rigney (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |
| 9:35-11:00 | SESSION 8 Room 1616 (WKDN) PANEL “Language Teaching for Sustainability at the Introductory and Intermediate Levels” Presenters: Sandra Valnes, Yan Liu, Melissa Simmermeyer Room 1617 (WKDN) “Empathy, Excellence, and Empowerment: Establishing a Center for Languages for Specific Purposes” Presenters: Alyssia Miller De Rutté, Shannon Zeller, Maite Correa, Paula Izquierdo García, Nyssa Knarvik, Edward Sarasty, Maura Velázquez-Castillo |
| 11:05-12:30 | SESSION 9 Room 1616 (WKDN) “Bridging the Readability Gap: AI, Accessibility, and Accuracy in Spanish Patient Education Materials” Presenters: Maite Correa, Alyssia Miller-De Rutté “Enhancing Second Language Reading Comprehension through AI and VR Integration” Presenter: Jhon Cortes Lugo “Supporting LSP Learning through Scaffolded VR and AI Integration” Presenters: Edward Sarasty, Paula Izquierdo García Room 1617 (WKDN) “Forty-Three Years of Spanish for Health Professions at One Institution: Evolution, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions” Presenter: Karol Hardin “Taking the pulse to a Medical Spanish undergraduate class” Presenters: Paloma Moscardo-Valles, Anais Holgado-Lage “The Evolution of Costa Rican Spanish Programs: Meeting the Demands of Foreign Students” Presenter: Carmen King Ramírez |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch and advocacy discussion (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |
| 1:35-2:55 | SESSION 10 Room 1616 (WKDN) “Enhancing Business Language Education through Domain Analysis” Presenters: Colin Benert, Xiaorong Wang, Ana Flavia Boeing Marcelino “LEXVET-ESP: Developing a New Vocabulary Test and the Integration of VR for Specialized Vocabulary Acquisition” Presenter: Paula Izquierdo-Garcia Auditorium (WKDN 4802) “Collaborative Pathways: Integrating OER and LSP for Sustainable, Inclusive Professional Language Education” Presenters: Diana Galarreta-Aima, Christine Rickabaugh “Educating Future LSP Professionals: Building Interdepartmental Collaboration” Presenters: Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker, Alyssia Miller De Rutté, Anthony Becker “From Language and Culture to Corporate Strategy: Case Competitions as Applied Experiential Learning” Presenters: Lindsay Preseau, Megan Myers |
| 3:00-3:30 | Closing Remarks (Auditorium, WKDN 4802) |